Using and editing the Freecycle wiki - Revision history

Alisonkamat at 14:40, 4 November 2021

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Alisonkamat at 14:38, 4 November 2021

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Alisonkamat at 14:35, 4 November 2021

2021-11-04T14:35:13Z

Alisonkamat: Added section about terminology

2018-04-05T20:30:04Z

Added section about terminology

Alisonkamat: Alisonkamat moved page How to Help to Using and editing the Freecycle wiki: Broadened the content

2017-05-31T20:36:23Z

Alisonkamat moved page How to Help to Using and editing the Freecycle wiki: Broadened the content

Alisonkamat: Added "how to search"

2017-05-31T20:34:45Z

Added "how to search"

Alisonkamat at 18:52, 3 June 2016

2016-06-03T18:52:44Z

Alisonkamat: Removed the section about looking for wiki work to do

2016-06-03T18:40:37Z

Removed the section about looking for wiki work to do

Alisonkamat: Added link

2016-04-20T14:50:00Z

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Alisonkamat: Added link

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 The Freecycle wiki is being phased out. The mod manual and other public materials are now all onsite and Freecycle teams are moving their wikis to the Wiki section of their respective team discussion groups on Groups.io. This information only applies to those teams who have not yet moved off the wiki.
-= How to search the wiki =
+To access team wikis, you have to log in. There's a link towards the top right, and you can '''log in using your personal Freecycle username (not email address)''' and password.
 The search box is in the left side of the wiki page. When you type in a search term it brings up search results for part of the wiki, which defaults to the basic member wiki. If you want to also search the Mod Manual, you need to check the box beside "Moderator Manual" and then click the blue Search button. At this point it's a good idea to check the box at the bottom that says "Remember selection for future searches" because you will almost always want to include the Mod Manual in your searches.
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 If you type in a search term that exactly matches the name of a page in the wiki, it opens that page instead of bringing up search results. "Glossary" is a good example of that. To bring up a list of pages that include the term "glossary," just add another word ("the" works beautifully).
 == How do I use the editor?  ==

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 If you type in a search term that exactly matches the name of a page in the wiki, it opens that page instead of bringing up search results. "Glossary" is a good example of that. To bring up a list of pages that include the term "glossary," just add another word ("the" works beautifully).
 == Log In  ==
-To edit pages, you have to log in. There's a link towards the top right, and you can log in using your [http://my.freecycle.org/ My Freecycle] id and password.
+To access team wikis, you have to log in. There's a link towards the top right, and you can log in using your Freecycle username (not email address) and password.
 == How do I use the editor?  ==
 When you click on Edit, you'll see the wikitext, which uses special characters to format the text. This is a bit cryptic to use, though you'll soon get the hang of it. The toolkit at the top of the page is helpful for most formatting situations. Click on Advanced to access list tools.

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		+	The Freecycle wiki is being phased out. The mod manual and other public materials are now all onsite and Freecycle teams are moving their wikis to the Wiki section of their respective team discussion groups on Groups.io. This information only applies to those teams who have not yet moved off the wiki.
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	= How to search the wiki =		= How to search the wiki =
	The search box is in the left side of the wiki page. When you type in a search term it brings up search results for part of the wiki, which defaults to the basic member wiki. If you want to also search the Mod Manual, you need to check the box beside "Moderator Manual" and then click the blue Search button. At this point it's a good idea to check the box at the bottom that says "Remember selection for future searches" because you will almost always want to include the Mod Manual in your searches.		The search box is in the left side of the wiki page. When you type in a search term it brings up search results for part of the wiki, which defaults to the basic member wiki. If you want to also search the Mod Manual, you need to check the box beside "Moderator Manual" and then click the blue Search button. At this point it's a good idea to check the box at the bottom that says "Remember selection for future searches" because you will almost always want to include the Mod Manual in your searches.

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 #Create a link to an page that doesn't exist yet. This will create a red link, and if you click the red link it will take you to the edit page for the new article. Simply type your text, click save and the new page will be created.
 #In your browser, type in <nowiki> https://wiki.freecycle.org/Newpagename </nowiki> to create a page called Newpagename. This brings up an error message: "There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs, or edit this page." The page is now ready to be edited.
+== Use consistent terminology ==
 == What's the 'house style'?  ==

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		+	= How to search the wiki =
		+	The search box is in the left side of the wiki page. When you type in a search term it brings up search results for part of the wiki, which defaults to the basic member wiki. If you want to also search the Mod Manual, you need to check the box beside "Moderator Manual" and then click the blue Search button. At this point it's a good idea to check the box at the bottom that says "Remember selection for future searches" because you will almost always want to include the Mod Manual in your searches.
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		+	If you only want to search a specific part of the wiki, click the "None" button on the right side and then check the box beside what you do want to search, then click the blue Search button.
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		+	If you type in a search term that exactly matches the name of a page in the wiki, it opens that page instead of bringing up search results. "Glossary" is a good example of that. To bring up a list of pages that include the term "glossary," just add another word ("the" works beautifully).
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		+	=How to help build the wiki=
	Here's how you can help build this wiki.		Here's how you can help build this wiki.

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 *Two apostrophes on each side are used to <nowiki> '' italicize '' </nowiki> text. You can also use the '''''I''''' icon in the toolbar.
-For more information on wikitext, here's a good cheatsheet of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet basic wikitext codes].
+For more information on wikitext, ''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet here's a good cheatsheet of basic wikitext codes]. '''
 Click below for additional information on:

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	Currently only group Moderators and Lead-Moderators can make edits.		Currently only group Moderators and Lead-Moderators can make edits.
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−	~~== What needs doing? ==~~
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−	~~You can find work that needs doing in two ways:~~
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−	*Find pages which don't exist.
−	*Browsing.
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−	~~=== Missing Pages ===~~
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−	*Wikis have clickable links, to take you from one article to another.
−	*If the article doesn't exist, the link will appear in red.
−	*You can get a list of articles which don't exist'''''....how?'''''
−	*Then just click on one, and start editing.
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−	~~=== Browsing ===~~
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−	*Just wander around the wiki, clicking on links, searching, and so on.
−	*When you find something that's wrong, fix it - click on the ''Edit'' link.
−	*Similarly, if something's missing, add it in.
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−	~~If you think an article should exist, [[#Creating a new page\|create a link to it]] - that way it will show up when people look for work to do.~~

	== How do I use the editor? ==		== How do I use the editor? ==

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	Yes. The wiki shows the approved versions of changes.  A separate team of Reviewers will verify your edits and approve them to make them visible to others.		Yes. The wiki shows the approved versions of changes.  A separate team of Reviewers will verify your edits and approve them to make them visible to others.
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		+	== [[Help:Editing\|Useful links and templates]] ==

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 *Remember that the default setting in the wiki is that all pages are visible to the public unless permissions are set to restrict the page to specific users.
 *When you're looking at the wiki and see an example of formatting you might like to emulate, click the Edit tab and copy the wikitext to a text document so you can refer to it later.
+For more suggestions on layout and content, please click [[Suggestions_for_layout/content|here]]
 == Are my edits reviewed?  ==
 Yes. The wiki shows the approved versions of changes.&nbsp; A separate team of Reviewers will verify your edits and approve them to make them visible to others.